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ROTARY FENDER AND CLEANER FOR SURFACE RAILWAYS.

APPLICATION IiILED OUT. 5. 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed October 5,1905. Serial No. 281,431.

rammed March 13, 1906.

To M whom it may concern,- I

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. PERRY, a.

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Concord, in the county of Merrimack and State. of New Ham shire, have invented certain new and usefu Improvements in Rotary 'Fenders and Cleanersfor Surface Railways, I of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for cleaning railway road-beds, and particularly machinesfor cleaning ice, snow, and the like "from the rails and beds of surface railways. r The object of the'invention is to provide a device for the urpose specified which is particularly simip1 and highly e cient and effective in use.

hereinafter described, an ed. out in theclaims. I 1

The invention is susceptible of variousembodiments without departing from the spirit I *exemplification thereof.

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and scope thereof; but for the purpose of clearly explainingthesame it has been deemed necessary to illustrate and describe The invention is illustrated panying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of one embodiment of the invention; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a planview, and Fig. 4 a

in .theaccom- The invention includes generally a truck- -frame, means ladjustably supported therefrom for cleaning the road-bedbetween the rails of a surface railway, other cleaning means coacting more directly with the rails, and means supported onthe truck-frame for rotating the cleaning'devices and for raising and lowering the same.

In the exemplification of my invention vshown in the drawings the truck-frame is designated by 1 and is. shown as supporting a suitable drivin element, as a motor 2.

The means or cleaning the surface of the road-bed between the rails is shown herein as a rotary brush 3, the same being constructed of two parts or sections set at suitable angles to each other, and the cleaning means coact-- ing more directly with the rails are shown as supplemental brushes 4, arranged in axial alinement with the brushes 3. and preferably mounted on the same shaft thereas. In this exemplification of my invention each brush.- section?) with its associated brush4 is mounte' and durable in construction V f m bearings 16, fixed .to

The invention includes the combination and arrangement of com onent parts" to be particularly pointbut one ner ends of which shafts find bearings in a bracket 7, while the outer ends of the same truck-frame and arranged at the corners thereof. The ends of theshafts 5 are con- 'nectedtothe drive-shaft of the motor 2 by interposed drive mechanism which includes beveled gears12'onthe outer ends of the shafts 5 said gears meshing with companion gears '13, mounted on the forward ends of shafts 15, the latter bein suitably journaled tile truck-frame and 'bein driven by transverse shaft 17, carrying beve ed gears 18, which intermesh with similar gears 19. The shafts 15are preferably formed in two sectionsin order that one part thereof may be fixed, except as to the rotary movement ofthe same, While the other part may have 'a vertical movement corresponding to the vertical adjustment given the cleaning-brushes, as will be hereinafter described. As illustrated in the accompanying drawings, the front section of the shaft 15 is connected to the rear fixed section by aflexib le joint or coupling 20.

For driving the shaft 17 the driving-shaft of the motor 2, in the present'instance the armature-shaft, is. rovided with a pinion 21', which meshes wit a gear 22, having a relatively large diameter,- thus materially reducing the speed of said gear in comparison to the speed ofthe pinion 21, and said gear 22' is ed on an obliquely-extending shaft 5, the in- I carried by a shaft 23, j ournaled in a suitable support 22, securely fastened to the frame of the machine. The, shaft 23 at a point between the gear 22 and the support 24 is also provided with a sprocket-gear 25, over which travels a sprocket-chain'26, which latter also engages and operates a sprocket-gear 27, car ried by the shaft 17. The gear 27 however, is loosely mounted upon the shaft 17 and constitutes one member of a clutch 28, the other member of which is splined to the shaft 17 and operated through the medium of a shift-; ing lever-29, pivoted to the "machine-frame. Thus it will be seen that by suitably operating thelever 29 the shaft 17 may be controlled in its operation for either rotating the clean? ing-brushes or causing their rotation to cease. In addition to driving the cleaningebrushes the motor 2 is also intended to propel the ma- IIIO chine. To the accomplishing of this end a pinion is carried at the end of shaft 23 opposite to the gear-wheel 22, said pinion meshing with a gear 31, carried by a shaft'3 2, journaled in a support 33, also securely fastened to the machine-frame. Mounted upon said shaft 32 is a pinion 34, which meshes with a gear 35, carried by a shaft 36, the latter being ournaled in and projecting through the support 33, as clearly seenv Loosely mount- I ed upon the projecting end of shaft 36 is a pinion 37, said pinion serving as one member of a clutch 38, the other member of which is splined to the shaft 36 and controlled through the medium of a shifting lever 39, pivoted to a fastening-arm 40, carried by the support 33. The pinion 37 engages an idler-gear 41, journaled upon support 33, which idler also engages a gear 42, secured to one of the axles of the machine. Through the gearing described it is obvious that the machine will be effectually propelled and may be readily started or stopped by the clutch 38, controlled by the shifting lever 39.

The blocks 10, associated with the two guide-casings 11, are simultaneously adjusted to uniformly raise and lower the cleaning brushes by means of shafts or pillars 43, mounted in the casings, the upper ends of which are provided with sprocket-wheels 44, over which runs a sprocket-chain 45, which is actuated from a hand-operated wheel 46. The latter is secured upon a stafi 47, mounted in the truck-frame, and said staff is pro vided at its lower end with a sprocket-wheel 48, around which the chain is guided. The chain is held into engagement with the lastnamed sprocket-wheel by means of guiderollers 49, mounted in the truck-frame upon each side of said sprocket-wheel closely adj acent to the latter. 7

The motor 2 having been started the machine will be propelled by simply shifting lever 39, thereby. causing the clutch 38 to lock the pinion 37 in engagement with the shaft 36, whereupon the gears 41 and 42 will be brought into operative relation with the other members of the propelling-gears and the machine will be driven forwardly. When the shifting lever 29 has been suitably operated, the shaft 17 will be thrown into gear with the shaft 23 through the medium of the sprocket-chain and sprocket-gears, and consequently the brushes 3 will be caused to rotate under the influence of the motor. Obviously as the machine moves forwardly the brushes 3 will attack the ice or snow and effectually remove the same from the rails and bed of the track, the brushes 4 serving to clear the Y accumulations of ice or snow directly from the tracks. The brushes may be forced downwardly or drawn upwardly by operating the shafts 43 through the medium of the sprocket-wheels 44, the chain 45, and the hand-wheel 46, and thus it will be seen that the position of said brushes may be readily changed in accordance with the conditions under which the machine is to work.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cleaner for surface railways, and in combination, cleaning means for the roadbed between the rails of the surface railway, additional cleaning means coacting directly with the rails of the surface railway and in substantial alinement with the first-named cleaning means, and means for simultaneously raising and lowering both sets of cleaning means.

2. In a cleaner for surface railways, and in combination, a truck-frame, a driving element mounted thereon, cleaning means for the surface of the railway between the rails, additional means coacting more directly with the rails and. rotating about coincident axis said additional means being of less di ameter than the main cleaning means, and driving mechanism interposed between said driving element and the cleaning means for imparting a rotary movement to the latter.

3. In a cleaner for surface railways, and in combination, a truck-frame, guide-casings at the end thereof, a driving element associated with the truck-frame, cleaning mechanism coacting with the surface of the road-bed be tween the rails and with the rails, said mechanism including a shaft, gearing interposed between the shaft and said driving element on the truck-frame, and bearing-blocks for the shaft adjustably mounted insaid guidecasings.

4. In a cleaner for surface railways, and in combination, a truck-frame having guide casings at the end thereof, a driving element associated with the truck, cleaning mechanism coacting with the surface of the roadbed between the rails and with the rails, said mechanism including a shaft, gearing interposed between the shaft and said driving element on the truck, bearing-blocks for the shaft adjustably mounted in said guide-casings, and "means for raising and lowering said blocks in the guide-casings, including a handoperated wheel, pillars or shafts coacting with the blocks and carrying sprocket-wheels at their upper ends, a staff carrying the handwheel, a sprocket-wheel on the lower end thereof, and a s rocket-chain passing about the latter sproc ct-wheel and the sprocketwheel on said shafts or pillars.

5. In a cleaner for surface railways, and in combination, a truck-frame, a driving element associated therewith, cleaning mechanism rotated from said driving element through interposed gearing, and means for raising and lowering the cleaning mechanism includin rotatablevertically-disposed shafts, sprocIret-wheels mounted thereon, a hand-wheel, a staff supported in the truckframe carrying the same, a sprocket-wheel on the staff, a sprocket-chain passing about and coacting with said sprocket-wheels, and

guide-rollers for said chain mounted on op-' posite sides and closely adjacent to the sprocket-wheel on the staff, substantially as described.

' 6. A self-contained cleaner. for surface railways comprising a truck-frame, supporting-wheels therefor, a motor mounted on the frame, blocks vertically movable in the frame, a second frame, supported from the blocks; brushes journale in the, second tween the motor and the brushes. 7 I 7. A self-contained cleaner for surface frame and drive mechanism/interposed b'erailways comprising a truck-frame, supporting-wheels therefor, a motor mounted on the frame, blocks vertically movable, in the frame, asecond frame su ported from the blocks, brushes journale in the second frame, drive mechanism interposed between the motor-brushes and means for simultan'e- I ously shifting the blocks.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name, in the presence of two at- 

